His team used a method called transient gene silencing to change the genetic structure of the three mosquito species responsible for spreading malaria.

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But she argues that modern atheism is as one-dimensional and transient a phenomenon as the modern varieties of theism (including fundamentalism) to which it responds.

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Summers was described as a transient with a criminal record including convictions for burglary and grand theft.

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It matters, of course, whether this immunity from criticism is a transient phenomenon or a permanent one.

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